Itzaic has soloed High Priestess Kilnara, the panther boss in the 5-person heroic dungeon Zul’Gurub. High Priestess Kilnara is of particular interest to mount collectors because there is a rare chance that she will drop the Swift Zulian Panther mount.
Itzaic’s strategy:
I believe this is a gear dependent solo. P2 gets dangerous very fast for your pet and it’ll get to a point where you can’t just mend pet your pet back up even with cooldowns.
Getting through phase 1 can be painful because of Lash of Anguish. You can absorb most of the lash’s damage through pet intervene. The problem becomes apparent if she lashes before your intervene can come back up. While you can raptor strike to reduce the amount of damage from it, you’ll die if this happens again. Being able to get through this phase is completely up to RNG and how many times she uses lash of anguish. Stay out of her melee range to avoid Tears of Blood. For the panthers, you want to pull them individually and kill them fast, or they’ll pounce and leave a DoT on you.
Phase 2 is where the gear comes into play. As the phase goes on, she stacks up her damage/haste buff and eventually it’ll become unhealable even with pet cooldowns. You’ll want to save any of your damage cooldowns like (rapid fire and agi pot) for this. Eventually your pet’s last stand/damage reduction will fade. Right when you see her Camouflage, dismiss your current pet and pull out a fresh tanking pet. MD or let it hit her, then feign death whenever your pet’s health has updated correctly to full. (You might need to deterrence since it takes time for your pet’s heatlh to update.) This will buy you another maybe 20-25 seconds worth of dps time on her, and hopefully she’ll die before your pet.
Screenshot of a hunter with the Swift Zulian Panther mount dropped by High Priestess Kilnara, along with matching combat and non-combat pets:
Read Itzaic’s full post at the Elitist Jerks Hunter forum and see Itzaic’s YouTube Channel for more videos.
See Hunter Soloing, from Classic to Cataclysm: Tips, Guides, Strategies, and Videos for a complete selection of guides to hunter soloing including hunter soloing builds as well as boss-specific strategies and videos for hunters.
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